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\nall of you and I know that there
\nwere people that put an intense <\/p>\n
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\namount of effort into
\norganizing. <\/p>\n
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\nEverything has taken place this
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\nThe music for me was a was a
\nwonderful highlight. <\/p>\n
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\nI was telling the young people,
\nyou know, I remember 25 years <\/p>\n
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\nago listening to some of these
\nyoung people’s performances and.<\/p>\n
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\nBecause of your great love for
\nthem, you would get through <\/p>\n
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\nthem, but this group was quite
\nsophisticated the playing. <\/p>\n
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\nWas wonderful.
\nThe choral pieces were just <\/p>\n
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\nexquisite.
\nThey were gorgeous. <\/p>\n
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\nSo thank you for all of that.
\nAnd thank you, those organizers,<\/p>\n
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\nbehind the scenes, most of whom
\nno one knows by name, who day <\/p>\n
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\nand night work, to get all of
\nthis organized, to have enough <\/p>\n
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\nfood to get the food in and
\neverything else. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then you’ve got the
\ndifficulty of dealing with <\/p>\n
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\ndifficult speakers of overseas
\nlikewise on top of that, all of <\/p>\n
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\nwhich is a lot of hard work.
\nSo don’t underestimate how much <\/p>\n
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\nhas gone into a gathering like
\nthis. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you find anybody who did
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\nthem.
\nI I know we said that we don’t <\/p>\n
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\ndo work to be thanked, but for
\nthose people who quietly worked <\/p>\n
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\nbehind the scenes appreciate the
\ngift of love they’ve they’ve <\/p>\n
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\nactually given to you.
\nNow, one of the things that <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ve seen through this book.
\nEven though we’ve just looked in<\/p>\n
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\na patchy way.
\nAt passages from the beginning <\/p>\n
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\nto the end.
\nIs that the Lord is very <\/p>\n
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\nconstant in what he does.
\nWhen he makes a commitment, he <\/p>\n
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\nsticks to it.
\nWhen he makes a promise, he <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t change his mind and
\nchange direction. <\/p>\n
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\nHis honouring of his part of
\nevery commitment he makes is not<\/p>\n
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\ndependent on how we behave.
\nAnd how we respond, Yes, he may <\/p>\n
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\nneed.
\nTo draw in correction. <\/p>\n
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\nSometimes that correction can
\nbe. <\/p>\n
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\nBlisteringly difficult and awful
\nto have to endure through. <\/p>\n
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\nBut God, pardon the expression,
\nis a man of his word. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s a.
\nPerson who sticks to what he <\/p>\n
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\nsaid he’s going to do, and God
\nexpects that of you and me. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we are not constant and how
\nwe do what we do in our <\/p>\n
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\ninteraction with each other for?
\nUs. <\/p>\n
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\nIt becomes transactional.
\nYou treat me this way, I’ll <\/p>\n
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\ntreat you that way.
\nYou mistreat me, I’ll mistreat <\/p>\n
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\nyou.
\nIt becomes that kind of an <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so we become critically <\/p>\n
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\ndependent in how we behave on
\nthe way in which the other <\/p>\n
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\nperson the corresponding
\nindividual. <\/p>\n
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\nBehaves with us.
\nAnd that’s not the way Christ <\/p>\n
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\ndid what he did.
\nIt’s not the way that God did <\/p>\n
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\nwhat he did with Israel.
\nAnd so, in our relationships <\/p>\n
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\nwith God, we try to.
\nBe as constant with Him as he is<\/p>\n
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\nwith us.
\nAre you going through a terrible<\/p>\n
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\ntrial and loss in your life?
\nAre you angry with God? <\/p>\n
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\nHave you stopped talking to him
\nwhen you talk? <\/p>\n
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\nTo him is it with an underlying
\ntone of bitterness, a <\/p>\n
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\ndisappointed feeling.
\nA feeling that he let you down <\/p>\n
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\nwhen you needed him.
\nWe need to be able, in the <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle of our trials, to go
\ncounter intuitive, to be the <\/p>\n
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\nopposite of that.
\nAre you angry with God? <\/p>\n
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\nTell him you’re angry with him.
\nPour it out in prayer to him. <\/p>\n
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\nI have no clue why you’re
\nallowing this to happen to me in<\/p>\n
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\nmy life.
\nI feel disappointed. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m frustrated.
\nLord, help me to understand. <\/p>\n
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\nJust help me to hold on.
\nToday and then tomorrow, if you <\/p>\n
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\ncould just give me an insight to
\nbe able to make it through this <\/p>\n
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\none day, Lord, that would be a
\nwonderful answer to my prayer. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s better than not talking
\nto him. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s.
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\nSo there are those moments when <\/p>\n
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\nGod is all about a transaction. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s not transactional.
\nBecause if it was, would you be <\/p>\n
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\nalive in light of the fact that
\na man gave his life for you? <\/p>\n
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\nIf that was transactional, would
\nyou be alive? <\/p>\n
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\nNo, He gave his life for you,
\nthat you might then live for <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nOr what does that mean? <\/p>\n
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\nIt means how I am with my wife,
\nhow you are with your husband, <\/p>\n
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\nhow we are with our children,
\nhow we are with our brothers and<\/p>\n
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\nsisters.
\nHow you are with your colleagues<\/p>\n
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\nHow you are with your employees,
\nhow you are with your managers, <\/p>\n
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\nthe executives, the the leaders
\nyou report to, is all going to <\/p>\n
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\nreflect the fact that a man gave
\nhis life for undeserving you so <\/p>\n
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\nthat you could live differently.
\nAnd you might say, well, I’m not<\/p>\n
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\ngoing to live like a like that
\nin the workplace, am I? <\/p>\n
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\nYes, you are.
\nYou need to feel a sense of <\/p>\n
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\naffection for the people that
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\na sister.
\nWith them now they may not. <\/p>\n
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\nAll understand all of the the
\nthe spiritual, biblical <\/p>\n
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\nundergirding of how you.
\nRelate to them, but if they know<\/p>\n
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\nstraightforward, supportive <\/p>\n
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\nWho gives them cover and is <\/p>\n
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\nsupportive of them?
\nWho is not always complaining <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they know that you’re
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\nAre you a manager? <\/p>\n
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\nand what they go through even.
\nThose you would have nothing to <\/p>\n
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\ndo with normally, but because
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\ntreat them like you would treat
\na brother or a sister. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you do that as a vice
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\nyour job and showing the love of
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\nThat’s if those things are
\nvalued as the most important <\/p>\n
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\ngift you have ever.
\nReceived in your life, God gave <\/p>\n
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\nHis love to Israel.
\nThere was. <\/p>\n
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\nNothing more precious she could
\nhave received, and she didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nHe taught her to walk. <\/p>\n
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\nHe taught her to understand his
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\nAll of the symbolism, all of the
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\nAll of the celebration and
\nritual around the Tabernacle and<\/p>\n
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\nthen the temple and the
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\nroyal hierarchy of the king and
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\nHe gave them all of that, all of
\nwhich were the greatest gifts <\/p>\n
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\nthat they could have, and they
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\nthat.
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\nthe love of the husband at your
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\nsatisfaction at the home you
\nlive in? <\/p>\n
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\nThe holiday you thought you were
\ngoing to get and did not get. <\/p>\n
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\nThe things that you thought your
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\nluxuries you would one day have,
\nand you find he could provide <\/p>\n
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\nnone of those things for you.
\nBut the man has to work day and <\/p>\n
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\nnight to hold things together
\nfor you. <\/p>\n
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\nDo do you realize the gift you
\nhave? <\/p>\n
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\nAre you like those Israelites in
\nPsalm 78 who said. <\/p>\n
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\nCan he provide something better
\nfor me? <\/p>\n
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\nCan he even give me what I want?
\nCan he give me the meat I’d like<\/p>\n
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\nto have?
\nI’m sick of this basic manner of<\/p>\n
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\na life that I have.
\nThat’s not what I signed up for.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd when he’s sick, a
\nchronically broken man. <\/p>\n
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\nAre you there with your arms
\naround him, those sleepless <\/p>\n
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\nnights of pain at his side?
\nRemembering that you married him<\/p>\n
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\nno matter what he would go
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\nor do.
\nYou feel you’ve been cheated and<\/p>\n
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\ngot a raw deal.
\nYou see, we measure the things <\/p>\n
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\nwe thought we should have and
\nget and the way we should have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen.
\nTreated and what we felt we <\/p>\n
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\ndeserved and were owed and we
\ndon’t recognize. <\/p>\n
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\nThat in Christ we’re owed
\nnothing because we got <\/p>\n
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\neverything and now our
\nresponsibility is to give back. <\/p>\n
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\nMany professions today talk
\nabout giving back. <\/p>\n
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\nYou take an apprentice under
\nyour arm. <\/p>\n
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\nsame profession and you. <\/p>\n
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\nYou guide them along and you
\nencourage them. <\/p>\n
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\nYou you look after an intern.
\nYou might be an older sister in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Ecclesia.
\nYou take a young sister or two <\/p>\n
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\nunder your arm and you you you
\nsupport them and and help them <\/p>\n
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\nas they.
\nWork through the problems and <\/p>\n
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\nthe struggles.
\nOf married life and child <\/p>\n
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\nraising and and just being a
\nsister. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd for us a whole life has to
\nbe about giving back and helping<\/p>\n
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\nand giving love.
\nHave you had? <\/p>\n
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\nDifficulty in being offended in
\nyour. <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia.
\nHas somebody treated you <\/p>\n
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\nIs there a person in that <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia that calls you and irks
\nyou, brings the bile up out of <\/p>\n
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\nyour system?
\nEvery time you see them, keep <\/p>\n
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\ngoing and keep praying.
\nWalking away from the Ecclesia <\/p>\n
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\nbecause someone’s said something
\nhurtful to us is not what we <\/p>\n
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\nneed to do if we love God.
\nIf we want to be constant, like <\/p>\n
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\nGod is constant with us, then
\nit’s not transactional, it’s not<\/p>\n
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\nthe Ecclesia treating me nicely.
\nTherefore, I’ll stay in the <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia.
\nYou, You. <\/p>\n
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\nWeren’t baptized into Christ to
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\nFirst, Peter chapter two and
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\nBelievers would go through and. <\/p>\n
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\nPeter keeps saying things like
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\nhusbands be with their wives in
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\nemployers in the same way.
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\ndescribed.
\nIn chapter two of First Peter, <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, the fact that he bore up
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\nservice to God and for us.
\nSo your ecclesial life is going <\/p>\n
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\nto have times.
\nWhere you’re not treated well <\/p>\n
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\nand where you may not treat.
\nSomeone else? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, but you don’t stop coming
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\nAnd if you’ve stopped, come
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\nThere’s work you need to be
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\nThat’s not getting done because
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\nhand, Keep in.
\nAnd in your marriage when all <\/p>\n
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\nthe.
\nImperfections start coming out <\/p>\n
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\nwhen you see your husband.
\nWith all the glaze off of your <\/p>\n
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\neyes or your wife and the two of
\nyou aging together and that you <\/p>\n
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\nknow change to body shape that
\noccurs, you know you. <\/p>\n
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\nGo from a cucumber shaped thing
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\nyou look at that.
\nYou know what? <\/p>\n
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\nThat that’s a big change.
\nYou just accept. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, this is who you are with
\nand who you love. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd who loves you?
\nEvery marriage has its times of <\/p>\n
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\ntrouble.
\nThere isn’t a single one. <\/p>\n
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\nEvery family that looks like.
\nThey have no problems, have the <\/p>\n
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\nworst of all problems, they just
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\nthey don’t.
\nEvery person in this room has <\/p>\n
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\ngot broken bits in their lives.
\nShrapnel trouble difficulty. <\/p>\n
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\nOf some type.
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\nThat’s us.
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\ngoing to rub against shrapnel
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\nOnce in a while and cause
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\nYes, it happens in ecclesial.
\nLife. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s going to happen in your
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\nComplimentary people, opposites
\nattract, so you might got a <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s married to a very <\/p>\n
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\noutgoing, extroverted woman and
\nyou might think, well, that’s a <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s a recipe for.
\nWonderful things until it’s not.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd then the the.
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\nsomething’s clearly wrong and
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\nHas a moment’s peace, and no, he
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\nWant to talk at all?
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\nbecause he.
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\nHe never learned to talk. <\/p>\n
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\nHe never had the chance to so
\nthose people so complimentary. <\/p>\n
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\nHe fell in love with her
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\nShe fell in love with that shy,
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\nAnd that’s when you make that
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\nIt’s not something that falls on
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\nIt’s a choice you make.
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\nstick with it because that’s
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\nIsrael.
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\nand that’s what we need to do
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\nyou are musicians when you’re.
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\nget to that hard.
\nPassage. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you just want to throw your
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\nAnd listen to that smash down in<\/p>\n
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\nyou?
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\nWhat do you do?
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\nIf you’re a painter and you’re
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\na stage where you want to tear
\nit up and set fire to it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s that time where you see
\none Fleck of colour and they <\/p>\n
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\nwork with it and extend it and
\nbroaden it and you get through <\/p>\n
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\nto the end of the painting and
\nit’s beautiful. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, I’m not telling you that
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\nmagically that way for you.
\nBut what I am saying is we’re <\/p>\n
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\nOur marriages are worth the <\/p>\n
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\neffort.
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\nbrothers and sisters are worth
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\nthose tough stages when you want
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\nup, what’s?
\nThe world’s approach to that? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, the.
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\nhave to be happy all the time
\nyou deserve. <\/p>\n
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\nOngoing all the time happiness.
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\nhappiness, something’s wrong.
\nSo leave and go find it <\/p>\n
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\nsomewhere else and the world is
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\nFive year old executives pushing
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\nyear old wife that they in their
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\nThat’s the stupidity.
\nOf the elevated expectations. <\/p>\n
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\nWe set for ourselves.
\nIsrael looked with envy at the <\/p>\n
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\nnations around They wanted to be
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\nSyria, like Babylon.
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\nBecause they wanted the <\/p>\n
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\nJust hold on to me.
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\nme for all of your sin, All of
\nyou evil, all the injustice, the<\/p>\n
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\noppression of the poor, the
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\nwidows and orphans and gentiles,
\nthe slavery, the release, the re<\/p>\n
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\nenslavement of people.
\nAll the ugly things you do, you <\/p>\n
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\npriests who are now murdering
\ngangs, gangsters that were once.<\/p>\n
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\nPriests, I have to discipline
\nyou, but hold. <\/p>\n
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\nOn through it and.
\nReach out for me. <\/p>\n
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\nLook, for me, that’s what we
\nneed to do. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the heart of it all, all of
\nour trouble, all that we have to<\/p>\n
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\nendure is a desperate need to
\nhold on to God in the middle of <\/p>\n
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\nthat fight, No.
\nMatter how much your hip hurts, <\/p>\n
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\nbelieving he’s there and he’s
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\nget through.
\nSo we turn brothers and sisters <\/p>\n
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\nto Chapter 13.
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\nexalted himself in Israel.
\nNow the alternate translation. <\/p>\n
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\nsomething along these lines is <\/p>\n
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\nwhen Ephraim Spake there was
\ntrembling, but you know this <\/p>\n
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\nother first King James Version
\ntranslation is good enough and. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat this could be saying is
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\nWhen Ephraim approached God with
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\nexalted himself in Israel.
\nBut when? <\/p>\n
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\nHe went in the other direction
\nwhen he embraced the gods and <\/p>\n
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\ngoddesses.
\nOf the nations when he took on. <\/p>\n
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\nworshipped those things. <\/p>\n
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\nHe died now for us then if we
\ntake that and. <\/p>\n
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\nif you make your. <\/p>\n
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\ninvesting in rubbish.
\nIt will not save you. <\/p>\n
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\nhappiness you think you’re going<\/p>\n
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\nyou.
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\nTwo months ago, an executive
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\neverything has been moving
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\nThe assistant vice president <\/p>\n
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\nthen everybody else was in <\/p>\n
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\nSome of these people in these <\/p>\n
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\nwhere. <\/p>\n
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\n00:25:55,480 –> 00:25:58,360
\nPeople get all kinds of
\ncorporate prizes because they <\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:58,360 –> 00:26:00,960
\nwork day and night and almost
\ndied on the job. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:26:00,960 –> 00:26:03,000
\nIsn’t it wonderful?
\nThat’s commitment. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:26:03,960 –> 00:26:05,840
\nIt’s not commitment.
\nIt’s stupidity. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:26:05,840 –> 00:26:10,480
\nIs what it is.
\nBecause you think that job, that<\/p>\n
346
\n00:26:10,720 –> 00:26:17,000
\nbow, that weather, God thing you
\nworship is going to look after <\/p>\n
347
\n00:26:17,000 –> 00:26:19,120
\nyou.
\nYou know the man that got on <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:19,120 –> 00:26:23,040
\nthat first call, the.
\nExecutive Vice President. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:23,760 –> 00:26:25,880
\nGuess what?
\nNew job he was going to. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:28,560 –> 00:26:36,160
\nTermination now you would think
\nafter 30 years of. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:36,160 –> 00:26:40,520
\nClimbing on broken glass and
\nrubble on your knees. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:41,200 –> 00:26:43,400
\nYou would be on easy street,
\nwouldn’t you? <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:44,640 –> 00:26:49,680
\nWell, you’re not.
\nThe more you give to that, the <\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:49,680 –> 00:26:55,040
\nless you get in return.
\nWe work with honor in the <\/p>\n
355
\n00:26:55,040 –> 00:26:59,120
\nworkplace.
\nWe give everything we have while<\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:59,120 –> 00:27:05,160
\nwe’re there, but we do not let
\nthat region of bow invade. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:27:05,400 –> 00:27:09,360
\nAll aspects of our lives and
\nconsume them. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:27:09,680 –> 00:27:14,720
\nBecause when we do, we reap a
\nharvest of disappointment. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:27:16,200 –> 00:27:20,080
\nAnd that’s just one area.
\nAre your kids your gods? <\/p>\n
360
\n00:27:20,640 –> 00:27:23,960
\nIs everything about the kids and
\nthe kids and the kids and their <\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:23,960 –> 00:27:26,200
\nsports.
\nAnd you can’t make it on Sunday <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:26,320 –> 00:27:29,280
\nbecause you’re taking them to a
\nsports event and you know, she <\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:29,280 –> 00:27:32,200
\nmight get a scholarship to a
\nuniversity, or she might even <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:32,200 –> 00:27:35,880
\njoin the Australian Olympic
\nswimming team and all that <\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:35,960 –> 00:27:41,080
\nidiotic nonsense.
\nThat’s your bow now. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:27:41,080 –> 00:27:44,880
\nIs that is that the thing that
\nyou worship that’s going to save<\/p>\n
367
\n00:27:44,880 –> 00:27:49,040
\nyou or in the end give you
\nhappiness in your life? <\/p>\n
368
\n00:27:51,000 –> 00:27:56,560
\nNo, it isn’t so.
\nWe look at these expressions and<\/p>\n
369
\n00:27:56,560 –> 00:28:00,840
\nwe consider them a little bit
\nquaint, but not really something<\/p>\n
370
\n00:28:00,840 –> 00:28:02,960
\nthat is relevant in the 21st
\ncentury. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:28:02,960 –> 00:28:08,160
\nThey are God’s.
\nWord is always relevant. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:28:08,880 –> 00:28:16,840
\nWe just need to think about it,
\nreflect on it, meditate on it. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:19,040 –> 00:28:23,960
\nWhen we humble ourselves to
\nrecognize the only place I can <\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:23,960 –> 00:28:32,560
\nfind fulfilment is in labouring
\nin service with my family and <\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:32,560 –> 00:28:35,360
\nthe ecclesia.
\nThen it. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:35,360 –> 00:28:40,680
\nChanges it.
\nChanges the orientation of our <\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:40,680 –> 00:28:44,240
\nlife.
\nIn all of us, there is a push. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:28:44,880 –> 00:28:49,040
\nBecause generationally that’s
\nbeen bred into us upwards, <\/p>\n
379
\n00:28:49,080 –> 00:28:54,680
\nupwards, upwards with a with a
\nprogressively rising standard of<\/p>\n
380
\n00:28:54,680 –> 00:29:00,000
\nliving.
\nIs it good for us when we really<\/p>\n
381
\n00:29:00,000 –> 00:29:03,520
\nlook at it close?
\nHas it been good for your kids? <\/p>\n
382
\n00:29:04,120 –> 00:29:09,480
\nWasn’t good for mine.
\nAll the mistakes over the years,<\/p>\n
383
\n00:29:09,480 –> 00:29:14,800
\nI wish I could go back and
\nchange those things, be with my <\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:14,800 –> 00:29:19,000
\nkids, go to every CYC night,
\nevery event that involved. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:19,160 –> 00:29:23,480
\nKids, conferences, weekends,
\neverything associated with Bible<\/p>\n
386
\n00:29:23,480 –> 00:29:25,240
\nschool.
\nAnd so on to be there with them.<\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:25,680 –> 00:29:28,600
\nI was busy.
\nExceptionally busy in the truth,<\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:28,600 –> 00:29:35,560
\nbut not with them.
\nAnd that was wrong, because you <\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:35,560 –> 00:29:38,800
\ncan busy yourself out.
\nEven in the work of the <\/p>\n
390
\n00:29:38,800 –> 00:29:45,400
\nEcclesia, without giving
\nadequate support to the people <\/p>\n
391
\n00:29:45,400 –> 00:29:50,560
\nthat are dependent on you to be
\nthere for them. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:29:51,680 –> 00:29:53,200
\nI love my children, they love
\nme. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:56,240
\nBut now when I talk.
\nTo them, and I listen to what <\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:56,240 –> 00:29:58,640
\nthey they recall.
\nTo me, I would think, well, I <\/p>\n
395
\n00:29:58,640 –> 00:30:00,960
\nwas away for a couple of weeks
\nin the summertime at Bible <\/p>\n
396
\n00:30:00,960 –> 00:30:02,560
\nschools.
\nYou know what they? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:30:02,560 –> 00:30:07,080
\nRemember, Papa was always away
\nat Bible school. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:11,040
\nMama raised us through the
\nsummer. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:12,560 –> 00:30:14,680
\nAnd you want to correct them,
\nand you want to balance the <\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:14,680 –> 00:30:18,880
\nstory, but then you shut your
\nmouth because you realize what <\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:18,880 –> 00:30:21,560
\nshe remembers.
\nThat’s what happened. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:22,880 –> 00:30:31,360
\nAnd now I look back and I ask
\nmyself, did I abandoned my <\/p>\n
403
\n00:30:31,360 –> 00:30:36,160
\nfamily to do work that gave me a
\nsense of well-being, worth and <\/p>\n
404
\n00:30:36,160 –> 00:30:40,440
\nvalue?
\nAnd was it worth it for them? <\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:41,080 –> 00:30:42,520
\nI don’t have an answer to that
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:43,240 –> 00:30:45,840
\nI don’t.
\nAnd if a young man were to come <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:45,840 –> 00:30:50,120
\nup to me and say Uncle Dev, what
\nis balance look like? <\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:51,400 –> 00:30:53,880
\nI could not tell you because
\nI’ve never achieved it in my <\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:53,880 –> 00:30:57,360
\nlife.
\nGo to someone that you think. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:57,800 –> 00:31:01,760
\nLook is balanced to you and ask
\ntheir counsel. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:02,680 –> 00:31:08,960
\nAll I can say is this the labor
\nthat we put into the truth with <\/p>\n
412
\n00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:14,040
\nour families in there.
\nTogether at the same time is the<\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:14,040 –> 00:31:17,080
\nbest work that we can put our
\nhands to, and it’s hard work. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:18,440 –> 00:31:22,040
\nIt’s not work that is.
\nFull of joy and gratitude and <\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:24,400
\nhighs.
\nAnd so it’s just work that you <\/p>\n
416
\n00:31:24,400 –> 00:31:30,680
\ndo in thankfulness to God.
\nSo do some kind of work for God <\/p>\n
417
\n00:31:31,400 –> 00:31:36,320
\nand it will give you a.
\nFulfilment in the Ecclesia you. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:31:36,360 –> 00:31:38,080
\nMight be a sister, you might be
\na brother. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:31:38,080 –> 00:31:43,920
\nIt doesn’t matter now that
\ninvolves humility, It involves <\/p>\n
420
\n00:31:43,920 –> 00:31:49,200
\nrisk and involves listening to
\nthe advice of your brothers and <\/p>\n
421
\n00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:52,840
\nsisters when you are over
\nbalancing in a different <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:52,840 –> 00:31:56,400
\ndirection.
\nSo just keep those things in <\/p>\n
423
\n00:31:56,400 –> 00:32:01,280
\nmind.
\nWe go on then, and we look. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:08,400
\nFurther in the chapter verse 9.
\nAnd once again, this is a God <\/p>\n
425
\n00:32:08,480 –> 00:32:13,040
\ntaking the time to challenge his
\nchildren because he loves. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:32:13,120 –> 00:32:19,400
\nThem, by the way, just thinking
\nback on Chapter 11, brother <\/p>\n
427
\n00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:22,280
\nStephen Hindman just gave me a
\nbeautiful thought. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:32:23,160 –> 00:32:27,320
\nI think it’s just so lovely if
\nyou were to. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:32:27,320 –> 00:32:31,440
\nAsk the question, Why did God
\nlove Israel? <\/p>\n
430
\n00:32:33,000 –> 00:32:36,240
\nAnd Stephen said.
\nWell, there’s a multitude of <\/p>\n
431
\n00:32:36,240 –> 00:32:43,720
\nanswers, but one answer would be
\nbecause I love your grandpa, I <\/p>\n
432
\n00:32:43,720 –> 00:32:50,040
\nloved Abraham so much, and
\nbecause of my love for him, I <\/p>\n
433
\n00:32:50,040 –> 00:32:53,040
\nalso love you.
\nIsn’t that beautiful? <\/p>\n
434
\n00:32:54,560 –> 00:32:57,640
\nAnd if the Gentiles, he said,
\nwere to say the same thing, why <\/p>\n
435
\n00:32:57,640 –> 00:33:05,080
\ndo you love us?
\nGod could say to them, because <\/p>\n
436
\n00:33:05,080 –> 00:33:09,520
\nyou’re so much like Abraham, you
\nbelieve what he believed. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:33:10,760 –> 00:33:14,800
\nYou trust like he trusted.
\nSo I love you too. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:15,880 –> 00:33:20,680
\nIt takes those passages.
\nThat can be so much technical <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:20,680 –> 00:33:26,160
\ndetail, the grammar.
\nThe syntax, The lexicography, <\/p>\n
440
\n00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:30,200
\nwhat is happening as far as the?
\nIndividual word structures are <\/p>\n
441
\n00:33:30,200 –> 00:33:32,360
\nconcerned.
\nWhat were the root origins of <\/p>\n
442
\n00:33:32,360 –> 00:33:34,880
\nthese words?
\nNot just in language, but in <\/p>\n
443
\n00:33:34,880 –> 00:33:36,760
\nculture.
\nAll of that stuff. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:33:36,800 –> 00:33:41,880
\nHistory, geography, geology,
\nbiography, all of these things, <\/p>\n
445
\n00:33:42,040 –> 00:33:45,680
\nand you’d miss the point.
\nAnd Stephen says something like <\/p>\n
446
\n00:33:45,680 –> 00:33:50,160
\nthat, and the passage opens up
\nin a way you’ve never heard it <\/p>\n
447
\n00:33:50,160 –> 00:33:54,280
\nsaid before.
\nSo that’s just a lovely thought <\/p>\n
448
\n00:33:54,280 –> 00:33:56,200
\nI want to share.
\nPass on to you from Brother <\/p>\n
449
\n00:33:56,440 –> 00:34:04,720
\nStephen, he says, O Israel, thou
\nhast destroyed thyself, but in <\/p>\n
450
\n00:34:04,720 –> 00:34:11,920
\nme is thine help, Brother.
\nYou may have broken so many <\/p>\n
451
\n00:34:11,920 –> 00:34:15,600
\nthings in your life.
\nThere may be. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:20,560
\nSo much you’ve done wrong that
\nyou wish you could go back and <\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:24,520
\nchange.
\nYou may have destroyed yourself.<\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:26,040 –> 00:34:28,120
\nYour life has burnt to the
\nground. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:34:29,840 –> 00:34:31,679
\nDoes God say to you?
\nWell, it’s all over. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:34:31,679 –> 00:34:34,360
\nSorry about about that.
\nI’m sorry it worked out that way<\/p>\n
457
\n00:34:34,360 –> 00:34:42,159
\nfor you, but God says is this in
\nme is your help. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:46,520
\nIsrael did not need to run to.
\nEgypt, and then run to Assyria <\/p>\n
459
\n00:34:46,520 –> 00:34:48,880
\nand then try to play them off
\nagainst each other. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:49,000 –> 00:34:53,000
\nThis little nation playing the
\ngreat powers off against each <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:57,280
\nother didn’t need to do that.
\nShe just needed to reach out to <\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:57,560 –> 00:35:05,040
\nGod, her help.
\nAnd that’s that’s what is so <\/p>\n
463
\n00:35:05,040 –> 00:35:06,800
\nhard for us.
\nA. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:12,960
\nSelf reliant Western thinking
\nmen and women to get on our <\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:12,960 –> 00:35:20,720
\nknees to humble ourselves before
\nour God and to beg for his help.<\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:21,880 –> 00:35:23,480
\nI don’t know how to get through
\nthis. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:35:24,960 –> 00:35:27,960
\nHelp me to know how to get
\nthrough it then. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:35:27,960 –> 00:35:33,360
\nOur prayers are not poetry.
\nIt’s not something Shakespeare <\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:33,360 –> 00:35:34,840
\nwould write.
\nOr Byron. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:35:34,920 –> 00:35:38,880
\nOr Wordsworth.
\nThen they are messy. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:35:39,160 –> 00:35:41,920
\nThey are hard.
\nThey’re difficult. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:35:42,160 –> 00:35:47,280
\nThey have spikes in them.
\nThey’re imperfect, but they’re <\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:54,400
\nus pouring out to God and they
\nhears those prayers for us, for <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:54,400 –> 00:36:00,080
\nour suffering child, for our
\nparents, our brothers and our <\/p>\n
475
\n00:36:00,080 –> 00:36:05,600
\nsisters.
\nIn me is your help, not in me <\/p>\n
476
\n00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:07,960
\ncould be your help.
\nMight be your help. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:36:08,440 –> 00:36:11,560
\nPossibly under certain
\ncircumstances would be help. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:36:12,400 –> 00:36:14,640
\nThat’s not God.
\nThat’s government we’re thinking<\/p>\n
479
\n00:36:14,640 –> 00:36:25,560
\nabout in In me is your help.
\nSo we need to turn to our God, <\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:26,560 –> 00:36:33,160
\nand we need our kids to see and
\nto know that we are a praying <\/p>\n
481
\n00:36:33,560 –> 00:36:40,880
\npeople, a praying people.
\nAnd God after he says all the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:36:40,880 –> 00:36:42,800
\nthings that are.
\nGoing to happen to them, he <\/p>\n
483
\n00:36:42,800 –> 00:36:44,760
\nsays.
\nLook verse. 14 I will ransom <\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:44,760 –> 00:36:46,560
\nthem from the power of the
\ngrave. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:36:46,880 –> 00:36:53,760
\nI will redeem them from death.
\nO death, where is thy plagues? <\/p>\n
486
\n00:36:53,960 –> 00:36:57,600
\nO grave, where is thy
\ndestruction? <\/p>\n
487
\n00:36:58,040 –> 00:37:00,720
\nRepentance shall be hid from
\nmine eyes. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:37:00,960 –> 00:37:05,600
\nI’m going to save those of these
\npeople who turned to me. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:37:07,880 –> 00:37:12,040
\nI’m going to bring them back
\nfrom death, no matter what they <\/p>\n
490
\n00:37:12,040 –> 00:37:16,000
\nhave to go through now in
\ncorrection. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:37:16,000 –> 00:37:24,720
\nAnd you just hold on, sister, in
\nthat trial no one else <\/p>\n
492
\n00:37:24,720 –> 00:37:26,880
\nunderstands.
\nEven the people closest to you <\/p>\n
493
\n00:37:26,880 –> 00:37:29,320
\nthat.
\nI love you to distraction. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:29,840 –> 00:37:37,000
\nDon’t fully know what it is to
\nbe you in this trouble that you <\/p>\n
495
\n00:37:37,000 –> 00:37:46,240
\nare in now, but God knows the
\nLord Jesus Christ knows. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:37:47,280 –> 00:37:53,160
\nHold on to them, pour out to
\nGod, and believe that He will be<\/p>\n
497
\n00:37:53,160 –> 00:37:57,960
\nwith you all the way through,
\nand He’ll get you through. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:37:58,720 –> 00:38:00,920
\nThere may not be a.
\nMagical waving away of the <\/p>\n
499
\n00:38:00,920 –> 00:38:03,760
\nproblem with everything resolved
\nand tied with a bow. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:38:04,120 –> 00:38:07,120
\nThat’s American Disneyland.
\nStupid television. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:38:07,560 –> 00:38:14,920
\nThat’s not real life.
\nFor real life, things are messy,<\/p>\n
502
\n00:38:16,480 –> 00:38:19,280
\nbut God is used to putting his
\nhand into dirt. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:38:19,280 –> 00:38:22,680
\nIsn’t he to make?
\nPeople out of it, isn’t he? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:38:23,360 –> 00:38:26,760
\nThat’s how he made Adam and it’s
\nhow he’s making. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:26,760 –> 00:38:29,840
\nYou.
\nHe didn’t make Adam out of <\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:29,840 –> 00:38:32,920
\ndiamonds, he made him out of
\nmud. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:38:34,480 –> 00:38:42,440
\nSo God is worth reaching out to,
\nbelieving in, and holding onto <\/p>\n
508
\n00:38:43,120 –> 00:38:49,600
\nas he works in the mess of your
\nlife to build the treasure that <\/p>\n
509
\n00:38:49,600 –> 00:38:54,760
\nyou need to be for his Kingdom.
\nSo, brothers and sisters, then <\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:56,880 –> 00:39:03,160
\nwe go to chapter 14, or Israel
\nreturn unto the Lord thy God, <\/p>\n
511
\n00:39:03,560 –> 00:39:09,680
\nfor thou hast fallen by then.
\nIniquity take with you words and<\/p>\n
512
\n00:39:09,680 –> 00:39:12,160
\nreturn to the Lord.
\nNow think of some of the things <\/p>\n
513
\n00:39:12,160 –> 00:39:13,840
\nbrethren have said in their
\nprayers. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:39:14,440 –> 00:39:18,160
\nIt’s not about sacrifice, it’s
\nnot about your first born child.<\/p>\n
515
\n00:39:18,360 –> 00:39:20,280
\nIt’s not about any of the things
\nyou can bring. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:27,640
\nBut words?
\nWords, Prayer, loving <\/p>\n
517
\n00:39:27,640 –> 00:39:32,120
\nconversation.
\nA conversation with your Father <\/p>\n
518
\n00:39:32,960 –> 00:39:36,120
\nwho loves you.
\nYou can’t see him, but in that <\/p>\n
519
\n00:39:36,120 –> 00:39:42,320
\ndarkness you can imagine your
\nhand in his hand, burying you up<\/p>\n
520
\n00:39:42,320 –> 00:39:45,560
\nas a little one and saving you
\nthrough the trouble. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:39:46,840 –> 00:39:53,720
\nReach out to him.
\nBring words and your heart and <\/p>\n
522
\n00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:59,880
\nan open conversation with him.
\nBring these words. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:40:00,680 –> 00:40:03,320
\nWhereas for I will.
\nHeal their backsliding. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:40:04,080 –> 00:40:08,000
\nI will love them freely.
\nThat means openly, to the full <\/p>\n
525
\n00:40:08,000 –> 00:40:11,680
\nextent, he said.
\nHe would not express his full <\/p>\n
526
\n00:40:11,680 –> 00:40:16,000
\nanger to them, but his love or
\nhis love in abundance. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:40:17,120 –> 00:40:19,040
\nCan you see it?
\nCan you see his hand? <\/p>\n
528
\n00:40:19,680 –> 00:40:22,080
\nNo, but you you, you know where
\nyou can see and hear it. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:40:23,640 –> 00:40:28,400
\nAnd the brothers and sisters
\nthat love you put their hand on <\/p>\n
530
\n00:40:28,400 –> 00:40:30,040
\nyour shoulders.
\nThey walk by. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:40:30,800 –> 00:40:33,400
\nThey don’t have eloquent words,
\nbut they give it a squeeze. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:40:34,320 –> 00:40:40,760
\nAnd you know they love you.
\nThe old sister that comes up to <\/p>\n
533
\n00:40:40,760 –> 00:40:43,160
\nyou and says, you know, dear, I
\ndon’t. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:40:43,160 –> 00:40:47,080
\nI don’t know what you’re going
\nthrough, but I’m here if you <\/p>\n
535
\n00:40:47,080 –> 00:40:51,680
\nwant to have a cup of tea and
\nknow that I won’t repeat a word.<\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:52,920 –> 00:40:57,840
\nI’m just a good listener.
\nGod shows you his. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:40:57,840 –> 00:41:01,480
\nLove through the love of your
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:41:01,480 –> 00:41:07,440
\nAnd that’s why we need to be
\nthere in the Ecclesia to express<\/p>\n
539
\n00:41:07,440 –> 00:41:13,720
\nthe love of God and Christ to
\neach other in all of these <\/p>\n
540
\n00:41:13,720 –> 00:41:20,960
\nworker day back breaking
\ntroubles and trials that we’re <\/p>\n
541
\n00:41:20,960 –> 00:41:27,800
\nfaced with.
\nAnd so we end verse 9 who is <\/p>\n
542
\n00:41:27,800 –> 00:41:29,720
\nwise and he’ll understand these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:41:30,480 –> 00:41:34,040
\nPrudent, and he’ll know them.
\nFor the ways of the Lord are <\/p>\n
544
\n00:41:34,040 –> 00:41:37,360
\nright.
\nAnd the just shall walk in them,<\/p>\n
545
\n00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:45,880
\nbut the transgressors shall fall
\ntherein, and so does does <\/p>\n
546
\n00:41:45,880 –> 00:41:50,760
\nunderstanding mark our.
\nDevelopment and our maturing. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:41:51,560 –> 00:41:58,680
\nAs brothers and sisters do, we
\ndemonstrate that we know who God<\/p>\n
548
\n00:41:58,680 –> 00:42:02,600
\nis.
\nGod is very stingy in his <\/p>\n
549
\n00:42:02,600 –> 00:42:05,400
\ninvesting.
\nLet me tell you what I mean by <\/p>\n
550
\n00:42:05,400 –> 00:42:12,480
\nthat when he allows you to go
\nthrough the tunnel of fire. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:17,720
\nThat you are going through.
\nHe’s going to want to reinvest <\/p>\n
552
\n00:42:17,720 –> 00:42:22,760
\nthat.
\nOver and over and over and over <\/p>\n
553
\n00:42:23,920 –> 00:42:31,360
\nas you help other people
\nquietly, unobtrusively, without <\/p>\n
554
\n00:42:31,360 –> 00:42:36,440
\nfanfare.
\nSometimes, Sister, you’re <\/p>\n
555
\n00:42:36,440 –> 00:42:40,400
\nhelping us to sit beside the
\nsister who’s crying and pouring <\/p>\n
556
\n00:42:40,400 –> 00:42:43,800
\nout her heartbreak to you and
\njust holding her hand. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:42:45,280 –> 00:42:48,480
\nAnd what gives you the strength
\nand courage and the the ability <\/p>\n
558
\n00:42:48,480 –> 00:42:53,640
\nto push past shyness to do that?
\nWhat you’ve been through, what <\/p>\n
559
\n00:42:53,640 –> 00:42:58,240
\nyou’ve been through, whatever
\nthe trouble that you’ve worked <\/p>\n
560
\n00:42:58,240 –> 00:43:02,000
\nthrough, hanging in there
\nthrough that difficult part of <\/p>\n
561
\n00:43:02,000 –> 00:43:04,800
\nthe painting or the musical
\npiece that you’re trying to <\/p>\n
562
\n00:43:04,800 –> 00:43:10,480
\nlearn.
\nYou learn so much about the <\/p>\n
563
\n00:43:10,480 –> 00:43:16,280
\nhuman heart and all of its
\nfrailties. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:43:17,840 –> 00:43:22,320
\nAll of its fragility in the
\ntrouble that you go through in <\/p>\n
565
\n00:43:22,320 –> 00:43:27,640
\nyour life.
\nSo use it for good and when you <\/p>\n
566
\n00:43:27,640 –> 00:43:30,480
\nget through it or get able to
\ncope with it. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:43:31,680 –> 00:43:33,480
\nThank God that he’s getting you
\nthrough. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:43:34,760 –> 00:43:40,280
\nNow hold on to him, brothers and
\nsisters, with everything you’ve <\/p>\n
569
\n00:43:40,280 –> 00:43:46,880
\ngot in the midst of the ecclesia
\nwith your family, because he. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:43:48,320 –> 00:43:53,640
\nHe is your help.
\nHe is your help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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